From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Aug 24 15:50:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389D437B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 15:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F362C43E3B for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 15:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bruno_ritz@gmx.ch) Received: (qmail 8869 invoked by uid 0); 24 Aug 2002 22:50:13 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-108-200.hispeed.ch (HELO brunoritz) (217.162.108.200) by mail.gmx.net (mp012-rz3) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2002 22:50:13 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Ritz, Bruno" To: Subject: possible millisecond - microsecond confusion Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:52:31 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0003_01C24BD1.B158A560" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Disposition-Notification-To: "Ritz, Bruno" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C24BD1.B158A560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi it's nothing dramatically but i think there is a little mistake in the freebsd 4.6.2 handbook. at bottom of page 226 and on top of page 227 (10.7.7 IPFW Overhead and Optimization) where the times packet processing times are written, the times are specified once as milliseconds (ms) another time as microseconds. >>The per-packet processing overhead in the former case was approximately 2.703ms/packet, or roughly 2.7 microseconds per rule<< i don't know much about international regulations, but in switzerland (where i live) the "ms" stands for "milliseconds" while we use "usec" for microseconds (or the greek letter mu (or whatever it's name in english is))... thanks bruno ritz ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C24BD1.B158A560 Content-Type: image/gif; name="gr23.gif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="gr23.gif" R0lGODlhHAAgAPcAAAAAAIAAAACAAICAAAAAgIAAgACAgICAgMDAwP8AAAD/AP//AAAA//8A/wD/ /////yey/HcYBxMAZPoSAGz6EgAAAAAAePgSAAACAAA0+hIAlSv4d7g5+Hf/////RPoSABa1/Hct tfx3AAAAAID6EgABAAAAUonid9pC4nfwdVsAoFkXAKBZFwBZQ+J3oFkXAAAAAAAAAAAAoFkXAAIz 4negWRcA6Bc7APB1WwAKHeF3OgQQAAUAAAAAAAAA5gEbAAUAAADNq7rcPPkSAA414XfAuEAAY7L4 dxgAAABU+RIAJAAAAHA5+HcAABMASA0TACQAAABgZRMALPkSAAACAADo+hIAlSv4d7g5+Hf///// +PoSACey/HdIDRMAAAAAAAAAAACoc0gAUFsXAKD5EgAAAAAA5Tj4dwAAEwDwXhcAAAAAAHz5EgCI BhMAMPoSAJUr+HcgOfh3/////0D6EgBAt/x32AcTAPheFwAMXxcA+F4XAAEAAADgXBcACGJbAAMA AAAAAAAAAAAIAgMAAAAWABgAoVP4d5Dx/HeGU/h3AGETAOBgEwAMXxcAAAAAAAAAAAA4+hIAlSv4 d0hU+Hf/////SPoSAAAAEwAHAAAAAF8XAPheFwABAAAAAWATABDw/Hew+RIAgPoSAID6EgCVK/h3 GDb4d/////+Q+hIAQ63odwAAEwAAAAAAAQAAAGFG4XcAAAAAAQAAAADg/X8WABgA4FwXAPheFwAA AAAAKAEAAFT6EgAAAAAAsP8SAFYY6ndgreh3/////xg2+HfcTUMA+F4XAAAAEwAAAAAAIAAAACA6 vInAS8IBAEi/iSQAAACwTqtrwEvCAQAAAAB8AQAAGAcTAAMAAABncjIzYGUTACABAAAZuUAAhAQK AIQECgA0+xIAlSv4dwg2+Hf/////RPsSAB5z6HcAABMACAAUABgBAABhRuF3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAMTARABoZRMAVMcVAGxlEwC0c0gA/////2BlEwAuwUQAaGUTACH5BAEAAA8ALAAAAAAcACAA QAi4AB8IHEiwoMGDCAEoRAAAAcEDCiEeQEhQYcOGBBkCkEhRIMSIHUOKHGnQIkOHAz9yDGmxJUaN Jh8AQPgRJMmbOAvGLKiSpEmMKSNuFPkTpUehE1m2RAlzo9OODGu6RDk1odCcNBVi3cq1q8CdD20S XQj0qNOkHYuGPTv2otEHKocqdbt2ZVqyb+Oipah2oEWJew+6PPARAUyOgQdqRACY8EKJjOUabBqZ cEbIfMl6lYl3M+eynnEGBAA7 ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C24BD1.B158A560-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message